A little more than a thousand years ago, monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert removed Western ...

All living creatures are affected by the cycles of celestial objects. Humans have always been locked into the rhythms of ...

The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

The same pattern appears in agriculture, where African societies developed resilient, adaptive, and scientifically informed farming systems long before Europe stabilized its own. Agricultural ...

Formal education in Africa begins early and decisively in Ancient Egypt. By the third millennium BCE, Egypt maintained ...

Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...

An 11th-century monk saw the famous "Halley's comet" first as a child and later as an adult, new research finds.

Scientists have successfully decoded portions of a long-lost star catalog created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, ...

The “minute” on your phone is not a natural thing. Nothing in the sky divides an hour into 60 equal parts. Humans invented ...

The Sunset Trail offers, as the name suggests, prime viewing spots for Oklahoma’s famously dramatic evening skies, where pinks, purples, and oranges paint the heavens as the sun dips below the horizon ...

Hawks are taking cinematic flight. In two recent literary adaptations, they are entwined with the lives and emotions of their respective protagonists – Agnes Shakespeare (née Hathaway) and Helen ...